Pie cutter and crimper.



N0. 831.20% PATENTED SBPT.18, 1906. W. A. BEAMER.

PIE CUTTER AND GRIMPER. APPLIGATION FILED MAY 5,1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OHIO.

PIE CUTTER AND CRIMPER.

Application filed May 5, 19

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedSept. 18, 1906.

06. Serial No. 315,387.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LWILLIAM ALLEN BEA- MER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Knox and State of Ohio,haveinvented a new and useful Pie Cutter and Crimper, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for crimping and compressing the upper crust of a pie upon the lower crust and trimming said crusts to the size of the plate.

The principal object is to provide an exceedingly simple and novel device, which may be expeditiously fitted to pie-plates of different diameters and will effect both the crimping and trimming of the pie in a single operation.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a top plan view of the device. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view therethrough, showing the same applied to a pie; and Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line 4 4 of imilar reference-numerals designate cor responding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The device is in the form of an expansile.

and contractile ring composed of angularly-' disposed annular flanges. One of these flanges 4 is substantially horizontally disposed and constitutes a compressing-ring t is corrugated, as shown at 5, and has its end portions 6 slidably overlapped. The corrugations of said end portions adjustably interfit or interlock, as shown in Fig. 3. The other flange 7 is vertically disposed and is integral 'with the crimping-ring, said flange 7 depending from the outer edge of the crimping-ring 4 and constituting a cutting element. Its end portions are also overlapped. A thumb-receiving ring or handle 8 is carried by the outer end of the device, and a fingerreceiving holder or handle 9 is carried by an intermediate portion of the device, being disposed adjacent to the overlapped ends. The two handle elements are so related that the thumb may be placed in one, and two of the fingers oi the same hand in the other. handle elements are preferably formed of looped sheet metal riveted, as shown at 10,

to the ring.

' shape, proportion,

l its end portions i In using the device the same is held in one hand by the handles 8 and 9 and can therefore be readily expanded or contracted to the diameter of the pie to be operated upon. already stated, the corrugations of the over lapped portions interlock, and thus serve to maintain the device fixed at adjusted diameters. Having adjusted said device to the proper size, it is placed upon the pie and forced downwardly, whereupon the flange 7 will trim off the surplus dough, and'at the same time the flange or ring 4 will force the two crusts together and crimp their margins. It will be observed that the corrugations perform a plurality of functions, not only acting as cutters, but also as interlocking means for the ends of the ring. In addition to this the corrugations permit the ready bending of the ring so as to permit its expansion and contraction. It will be evident that the device is exceedingly simple and avoids entirely the necessity of turning the pie during the crimping and pressing operations.

From the foregoing it is thought that the the construction, operation, and many ad vantages of the herein-described invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the size, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the class described, comprising an exp ansile and contractile compressing or crimping ring.

2. A device of the, class described comprising an exp ansile and contractile compressing or crimping and cutting ring.

3. A device of the class described, com prising an exp ansile and contractile compressing or crimping ring having its end portions slidably overlapped.

4. A device of the class described, comprising an expansile and contractile corrugated compressing or crimping ring having slidably overlapped, the corrugations of said end portions adjustably interlocking.

5. A device of the class described, comprising an exp ansile and contractile ring com' posed of angularly-disposed annular flanges pressing-ring having slidably=overlapped end having slidably-overlapped end portions, one portions, an annular depending flange having of said flanges constituting a compressing V slidably overlapped end portions forming an 20 member, and the other a trimming or cutting expansile and contractile cutting element, a 5 member. handle carried by the outer end, and another 6. A device of the class described, comhandle carried by an intermediate ortion of prising an expansile and contractile corruthe device and movable toward and from the gated crimping-ring having slidably-overfirst-mentioned handle to contract or expand 2 5' lapped end portions, the corrugations of said said device. IO end portions adjustably interfitting, a de- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as pending annular flange carried by the crimpmy own I have hereto affixed my signature 1ng-ring and having slidabl overlapped ends, 1 1n the presence of two witnesses.

and handle elements carried by the end portions and movable toward and from each WILLIAM ALLEN I5 other to contract or expand the device. Witnesses: 7. A device of the class described, com- ROBERTNEILERHOUSE,

prising an expansile and contractile com- SEBA M. GROUOH. 

